Monday, February 18, 2013

Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post
photographer a racial epithet, a “crackhead” and a “drug dealer” during a
confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting
police to intervene.

Baldwin had first been approached by a Post reporter while walking
his dogs outside his East 10th Street pad at around 10:50 a.m. He was
asked for comment on a lawsuit against his wife, Hilaria, involving her
work as a yoga instructor.

The “30 Rock’’ star grabbed the reporter, Tara Palmeri, by her arm
and told her, “I want you to choke to death,” Palmeri told police, for
whom she played an audiotape of the conversation.

Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post photographer a
racial epithet, a “crackhead’’ and a “drug dealer’’ during a
confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting
police to intervene.

He then called G.N. Miller — a decorated retired detective with the
NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau and a staff photographer for The
Post — a “coon, a drug dealer,’’ Miller’s police statement said.